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12 Cards in this Set
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- Back
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When was is composed? |
1987 |
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What style of music is it? |
Minimalism |
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Key? |
E minor |
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Metre? |
Changes between 3/2 and 12/8 |
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Structure? |
No formal structure (could be described as ternary form) - 'A' section - 'B' section - Coda |
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Tempo? |
♩= 192 |
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Instrumentation? |
10 guitars - Live guitar - 7 pre-recorded guitar tracks - 2 pre-recorded bass guitar tracks |
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Melody? |
- Made up of short motifs called cells - The cells are looped - The live guitar plays the resultant melody |
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Rhythm? |
- Very little rhythmic variety - Mainly repeated patterns of quavers - Frequent syncopation - Metrical displacement: guitars 1-4 play the same motif, but start in different parts of the bar, so they sound out of sync which each other |
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Harmony and Tonality? |
- The beginning is tonally ambiguous - The bass guitars affirm that the key is E minor - The piece plunges into C minor and back into E minor regularly - There are no D sharps to affirm the key so it can be described as modal (aeolian mode transposed to E) |
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Texture? |
- Mainly contrapuntal - Builds up in layers >Starts with just guitar 1 (monophonic) >Then live guitar (heterophonic) >Guitars 2-4 follow by playing a metrically displaced opening riff >Then bass guitars 1 and 2 > Guitars 5-7 join and play chords > Guitars 5-7 drop out > Bass guitars fade out at the end |
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Dynamics? |
- No dynamic changes - Parts fade in and out in a number of places - Loud/soft determined by number of instruments playing |
